[MPlayer-users] MPlayer won't STFU / MPlayer doesn't report errors

[rcooley]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:28:20 -0700
Mark Guptill <mguptill at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> try putting "2>/dev/null" at the end of the mplayer command and
> options. for example

But if it was comming out of stderr, it wouldn't be causing a problem
with oggenc, since it's only reading from stdin...

If it  makes you feel any better, here you go:

$ mplayer Futurama-1_13.mpeg -really-quiet 2>/dev/null 
MPlayer dev-CVS-040707-07:29-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 1601 MHz (Family:
6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/root/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading
/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf. font:
can't open file: /home/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open
file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc

Obviously, that is output to stdout, not stderr, or I wouldn't see it.